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Jules Tavernier(1844-1889)Paying Homage 10 1/8 x 12 in. (25.7 x 30.5 cm)
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Jules Tavernier (1844-1889)
unsigned, with a label from Betty Hoag McGlynn (on the reverse)
oil on board
10 1/8 x 12 in. (25.7 x 30.5 cm)
Painted circa 1885.
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist.
David Howard Hitchcock (1861-1943), acquired from the above.
Howard Harvey Hitchcock (1899-1982), acquired from the above by descent.
Arne Coward (1920-1979), Honolulu, Oʻahu, acquired from the above.
Private collection, acquired from the above by descent.
Sale, Mystic Fine Arts, Mystic, Connecticut, 3 January 1996, lot 126 (as 'Side of the Mountain')
Private collection, Hawaiʻi, acquired from the above.
Adamson-Duvannes Galleries, Los Angeles, California, February 2000, acquired from the above.
The Collection of Dean and Marsha Curry, July 2012, acquired from the above.
Jules Tavernier, a peripatetic artist with a pronounced Bohemian bent, found himself in Hawaiʻi after amassing an insupportable debt in San Francisco. This pattern repeated itself in Hawaiʻi where the artist met his end, destitute, but rich in legacy as one of the key members of the Volcano school.
The present lot Paying Homage refers to the native Hawaiian tradition of leaving Hoʻokupu (gift or offering) at a volcano or other sacred place. The artist's composition dramatically uses the landscape and specifically the lava's edge to dwarf the figures. By using a small window of sky, a limited palette and the contrasting scale, Tavernier converts an open-air landscape into a cathedral-like interior for this sacred practice.




















